bad bosses

Boss targets employees one at a time until they quit, leading targeted employee to push back and look for ways to stop her: ‘I'm writing to the board’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee loses her dream job for being ‘too eager’ after her probation period is extended to 180 days: ‘I had no write-ups, no warnings, nothing’

Cata Holmes

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Employee gets laid off without notice, and when he says he already has a new job, he gets asked if he was going to give proper notice: ‘You just told me my role is done by Friday, and you're asking me about proper notice.’

María Cetra

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After 3 years under a clueless boss, Employee feels stuck in his career just because his bosses care only for their own ideas and give him no credit: 'While everyone notices my work, no one really gives me any benefit for it.'

María Cetra

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Employee is told by boss to stop being chatty and friendly, she complies, rumors about her being in a bad state of mind start to rise: 'The following week, the director called me into her office and asked what was wrong".

María Cetra

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Employee gets punished for being great at his job, so he decides to stop trying at all: 'Even though I performed my duties better than the others in my department, I was effectively punished for being so good.'

María Cetra

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Employee gets reprimanded over an email he sent defining the boundaries of his job description, but maybe he didn't do it with the best words: 'All I said was “Please don’t do this” and why.'

María Cetra

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Former employee joins rival company and ends up in meeting with old bosses criticizing his work: 'The nervous little laughs were glorious'

Cata Holmes

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Boss demands employee 'evaluate' whether leading people is for him after getting too emotional in a meeting, employee is left wondering if he still has time to flip the script: 'Everything doesn’t scream trust. We have lost this trust in you.'

Olivia Arocena

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Boss replaces his employees with AI, then begs everyone to come back when his business goes up in flames: ‘Their clients are suing them’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘We are not concerned with your personal life’: Intern gets fired on first day after leaving office 15 minutes after shift ends and refusing to return at 8 PM

Cata Holmes

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Former employee keeps getting asked to fix problems after leaving company, discovers why his old managers still can’t function without him: 'She doesn’t understand anything at all'

Cata Holmes

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Company cuts employee’s salary by $18K after he moves to Austin despite identical performance: “The only thing that changed was my zip code”

Cata Holmes

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Manager fires top performer over contract dispute to intimidate the rest of the team: 'Keep in line, produce, and don't cause trouble'

Ben Weiss

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Former employee wipes data from his work computer after discovering his replacement was offered the salary he wanted

Ben Weiss

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'It is basically a $50 "loyalty tax" to keep your name off the troublemaker list': HR tries to force workers to "donate" $50 for the CEO's birthday party, until one brave employee stands up to them

Jesse Kessenheimer

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